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Foursquare Cleans Up Profile Pages, Hints At Key New Metrics?
In the battle of Foursquare versus Gowalla in the location space, Gowalla is often thought of as “the pretty one.”

But Foursquare has been attempting to improve their look and feel recently with a number of changes. The latest comes today with new profile pages.
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Send Destinations via Google Maps to Ford and GM Vehicles. Google's "Send-To-Car" feature lets users send destinations from Google Maps directly to their vehicles.

This feature previously worked with BMW and Audi vehicles, and now Google has extended its partner base for the program to Ford and GM.
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360 Panorama brings real-time panoramic photography to the iPhone.
Occipital, the people who brought you RedLaser, have just changed iPhone photography in a big way.

With the announcement of 360 Panoramic, the company has brought real-time panoramic photography to the iPhone. Now you’ll need an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4, running iOS, in order to use it, but the results are pretty stellar: So that’s the gist. You simply tap the screen to start and then turn a slow circle for 20 seconds. As you do, the phone will put your panorama together in real time, using literally every single frame.
The Amazing Race. The current logo of the U.S. version of the show, introduced in its 23rd season.

The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the world in competition with other teams. Contestants strive to arrive first at "Pit Stops" at the end of each leg of the race to win prizes and to avoid coming in last, which carries the possibility of elimination or a significant disadvantage in the following leg. Contestants travel to and within multiple countries in a variety of transportation modes, including airplanes, hot air balloons, helicopters, trucks, bicycles, taxicabs, cars, jeepneys, trains, buses, boats, and by foot.

Clues provided in each leg lead the teams to the next destination or direct them to perform a task, either together or by a single member.
Apple acquires Poly9. Apple Earth coming soon?
In a huge announcement detailed on AppleInsider, we’ve just found out that Apple has acquired mapping company Poly9.

Poly9 has done some amazing work with mapping, including the Poly9 Globe project, which is quite akin to Google Earth, but weighs in at only 303kb and can run in any platform. With this acquisition, it raises the question of whether Apple is planning to aim head-on at Google’s mapping and earth projects. It would certainly seem so, given Apple’s other acquisition of Placebase last year. There are no hard details about the amount of money involved, or any exact timing of the acquisition. For now, all we have is a “recently”, as Poly9 employees have been told to not discuss the deal.

While the grumbling has continued about a dedicated mapping application for Apple devices, it appears that perhaps Apple is answering those concerns.
Ryan Lobo: Photographing the hidden story. Quantum memory may topple Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. A quantum memory may be all scientists need to beat the limit of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, according to a paper published in Nature Physics.

According to a group of researchers, maximally entangling a particle with a quantum memory and measuring one of the particle's variables, like its position, should snap the quantum memory in a corresponding state, which could then be measured. This would allow them to do something long thought verboten by the laws of physics: figure out the state of certain pairs of variables at the exact same time with an unprecedented amount of certainty. Our ability to observe particles at the quantum level is currently limited by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. The physical reasoning behind this is hard to follow.
Loved the real-time tube map? There’s more like it on the way…
Last month an (almost) real-time tube map got people talking when it launched as one of the first projects to use Transport for London’s API.

Apple acquires online mapping company Poly9 - report. By Katie Marsal Apple has purchased a Web-based mapping company from Quebec, Canada, that creates interactive 3D software for use in a browser, according to a new report.

THE WORLD IN A SHELL - The Polliniferoused Project. Techonomy » Conference 2010. Bibliotheken werken aan online nationale catalogus. Apple purchased Google Maps competitor Placebase - report. By Sam Oliver This summer, Apple quietly purchased the worldwide mapping company Placebase — one that competed with Google's own Maps product, featured on the iPhone.

Reports of the purchase of Placebase, maker of Pushpin and openplaces.org, first surfaced in July.
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Geo-Loco; Where The Geo-Wonks Meet The Geo-Clueless And All Points Inbetween. Last week I was in San Francisco, ostensibly to meet with fellow Nokians in Mountain View and Palo Alto, the homes of Google and Stanford University respectively.

Nederlandse bibliotheken bouwen één online catalogus. Augmented Reality App Sekai Camera Goes Multi-Platform. Adds API And Social Gaming.
Tokyo-based Tonchidot has come a long way since the spectacular launch of its augmented reality app Sekai Camera at TechCrunch50 back in 2008. We’ve spent quite a few articles on how the startup did since then, and the bottom line is that it did very well so far. Tonchidot is now offering up a lot more versions and features for its app (available for free on the iPhone with iOS4 support, iPad, and Android). Here’s a quick rundown of what happened in the past few months and what more we can expect from Sekai Camera in the future.

To recap, Sekai Camera makes it possible to create text messages, photos, and audio recordings (dubbed air tags) and “drop” them on the spot in the form of floating bubbles and icons. Other users in the vicinity who open the app and spin the camera around can then click on and interact with those geo-tagged virtual Post-It notes. Sekai Camera so far Sekai Camera in 2010 and beyond: API, iPad and Android versions, iPhone update, Sekai Apps. The Producers (1968 film)
The Producers is a 1968 American satirical dark comedy cult classic film written and directed by Mel Brooks.

The film is set in the late 1960s and it tells the story of a theatrical producer and an accountant who want to produce a sure-fire Broadway flop. They take more money from investors than they can repay (the shares they've sold total more than 100% of any profits) and plan to abscond to Brazil as soon as the play closes, only to see the plan improbably go awry when the show turns out to be a hit.
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Chatroullete Expands to Location and Channels. Chatroulette, the face-to-face random video chat service, is growing slightly less random. The service is adding Localroulette, for location-specific chats, and Channelroulette, for specific topics. Given the surge of interest in location-based apps, the choice to create a geolocating chat is not surprising.
Is Google just the start?
When the latest list of firms approved by Beijing to provide online mapping services in China was published last week, it was no great surprise that Google's name was missing. Google has an estimated two million users of its mobile mapping services in China, but now the state bureau of surveying and mapping services is reviewing the sector.

Only those companies of "excellent quality", says the bureau, will be approved.
Mendeley “sexes up” its academic API, opens it to all. Knowledge equals power, goes the saying.
Mapping Google's legal issues. Ever wondered what it's like to be an internet company operating multiple products built on the philosophy of openness and sharing? View Google vs the world in a larger map This map of lawsuits faced by Google shows just what comes with video-sharing sites, street mapping services and internet search.
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Gebruikers locatiediensten vrezen inbrekers. Exploring Curation to Transform the Mundane into the Strategic.

Foursquare Online Store. Zubed Location Intelligence, Web-GIS. Survey Finds Geolocation Apps Prevalent Amongst Mobile Device Users, But 55% Concerned About Loss of Privacy. Boulder, CO – July 13, 2010 Geolocation tools -- applications that broadcast the physical location of consumers when they’re online -- are the latest innovation in social media. Twitter recently rolled out its location-based features, and Facebook is expected to follow suit. But according to new research commissioned by Webroot, a leading provider of Internet security for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, the growing popularity of these applications does not come without concerns.

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